- · ·--------- -----~- -------~-----__;_ vifjfiilltd C o11[ciences. 383 ·;bce ;1:. tl;:-1 :;th:e~,:-e:ry;:-f:r.;<!:;m~'e~l~m~· e-;.,~w:;i;;thj;·~w;;,hh;i;;::ch~H.~e-;lo=-z~~es ____:_::,___ Jeftu Chrift; And that deare ~on o_f his, lov~ thee with the fl~ lavthu Ftlthcr lovp him: . But to put more' heate znd life ilito thine ::fittlions towards. him, and heavenly things; . To caufe thee to relilh comrmmion with Jejiu Chrift, when thou enjoyefi: it mo:ei'r..~cetly ; to pref~\· eit more carefully; to ioy in it more th:mkfitlly; and to Jbun more watchtully ,w b ~ltfoever--might rob tbce ofit : To fiirre up 211 the powers of thy feuk, and all the graces ofGod. in thee; to feeke his face and favour ·againe ·with more extraordinary) an.d tmiverfall ferioufi1e~, and induJ.hy : I' or we finde vJith pleaiure, poffeif..! with fingular cont~ntment, and keepe with (oeciall car.:, vvhat we have fought with paine.We may fee this in the S fOUfC : C anf.3. I. &c, under the preffcu:e of a gne\ ous Defert ion:ronder e\'ety ~articular.Byni~ht on my bed I fOught him,Vvhom m1 JOule loveth; I fo;ght _ him ,but I found him not. ~will rife now, &jnd,goe about the {ity in the ftrpets, and m the /;rod wayes; 1 wilt foe~ him v.:hom my .foule loveth: I fought him, !mt I found him n~. The Watch--men tkiat goc about the City ,foundme : To whom I (aid; Saw yee him whom my Joule loveth? ItwM but a little, that I p11f{cdjom them, /;ut I found him whom my [oale loveth : I held him and wouldnit let him goe, untill I had hrought him tp-my mothers houfe; ana into the cha111!Jer ofher that conceived me. I charge yee, Oyee · c~Jwghters of !era~ fol~m, by the Roer cmd by the HiHdes ofthe field, thatyee · flirre not up, nor ttwfik! my Lo-r-·e, tul he pkafe. ·And HHy, that, when the comfortable beames of Gods ligbtfome countenance fhall breake out againo upon thy f<;mle, and thy Beloved is returned; thou maiil: fing that triumphant fong of Faith moft .joyfully ; I ammyc:Bel011eds, and my .Beloveds mine, Defertions then,& delaies of this nature, are fruits of thy heavenly Fathers love ; andoughttbo be no difc~>Uragements B ~ . - WltO
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